President Nana Akufo-Addo has stated his friends are congratulating him wherever he goes over Ghana’s profitable internet hosting of the 2023 African Games.
Ghana hosted the 13th African Games in March, with 13,000 members, together with athletes, workers and friends, trooping to the nation for the Games.
While there have been criticisms over poor organisation at the beginning of the Games, issues steadily improved because the competitions wore on, with the Games ending on a clean observe.
Akufo-Addo thanks LOC for profitable organisation of African Games
Having hosted members of the LOC on the Jubilee House, Akufo-Addo stated internet hosting the Games in Ghana was one of many highlights of his presidency.
He additional thanked the LOC for the profitable organisation of the Games, whereas disclosing that he’s typically congratulated by his friends wherever he goes.
“One of the highlights of my presidency is the way in which my fellow peers congratulate me wherever I go on the success of the African Games,” the president acknowledged.
“The complete continent has felt enhanced and elevated by it. Moussa Faki Mahamat [President of the AU Commission] was speaking in regards to the Games.
“It is one of the things he believes has happened recently that has done a lot to raise the image of the continent so I have to thank all of you for your contribution, hard work and dedication to duty that has made it possible for this Games.”
As hosts, Ghana had athletes in numerous sporting disciplines, with the spotlight being the nation’s gold medal wins in each the boys’s and ladies’s soccer competitions.